I am setting up a test domain to learn bind, and how it,s working. The master domain is bbb.ttt.domene 10.11.12.13 the child domain ftp.bbb.ttt.domene 10.11.55.77 The thing I don't understand is, why don't the query report additional info (ip address)? Her is two queries(the first the one that troubles me), cut of named.conf, test of zone file, the zone file and cut from log file. # dnsq a www.ftp.bbb.ttt.domene 10.11.12.13 1 www.ftp.bbb.ttt.domene: 92 bytes, 1+0+1+0 records, response, authoritative, nxdomain query: 1 www.ftp.bbb.ttt.domene authority: ftp.bbb.ttt.domene 86400 SOA a.ns.ftp.bbb.ttt.domene hostmaster.bbb.ttt.domene 2005101301 10800 3600 3600000 86400 # dnsq a www.bbb.ttt.domene 10.11.55.77 1 www.bbb.ttt.domene: 87 bytes, 1+1+1+1 records, response, authoritative, noerror query: 1 www.bbb.ttt.domene answer: www.bbb.ttt.domene 172800 A 10.11.100.200 authority: bbb.ttt.domene 172800 NS a.ns.bbb.ttt.domene additional: a.ns.bbb.ttt.domene 172800 A 10.11.12.13 # named-checkzone ftp.bbb.ttt.domene pz/ftp.bbb.ttt.domene zone ftp.bbb.ttt.domene/IN: loaded serial 2005101301 OK named.conf (cut out) zone "bbb.ttt.domene" { type master; file "pz/bbb.ttt.domene"; }; zone "ftp.bbb.ttt.domene" { type master; file "pz/ftp.bbb.ttt.domene"; }; $TTL 172800 $ORIGIN ftp.bbb.ttt.domene. @ IN SOA a.ns.ftp.bbb.ttt.domene. hostmaster.bbb.ttt.domene. ( 2005101301 ; Serial 10800 ; Refresh 3600 ; Retry 3600000 ; Expire 86400 ) ; Negative TTL NS a.ns NS dns.ttt.domene. a.ns A 10.11.55.77 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: starting BIND 9.2.4 -u named Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: using 1 CPU Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named: named oppstart succeeded Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:0, 10.11.12.13#53 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0:1, 10.11.55.77#53 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: zone 11.10.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2003100501 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 2003100501 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: zone bbb.ttt.domene/IN: loaded serial 2003100501 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: zone ftp.bbb.ttt.domene/IN: loaded serial 2005101301 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 2003100501 Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: running Oct 13 11:45:44 sandsengen named[3385]: zone ftp.bbb.ttt.domene/IN: sending notifies (serial 2005101301)